Bug 62586

Summary:	question marks displayed instead of Farsi or maybe UTF-8
Product:	[Plasma] kwin	Reporter:	Arash Zeini <a.zeini>
Component:	general	Assignee:	KWin default assignee <kwin-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Compiled Sources
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments:	titlebar with question marks

Description Arash Zeini 2003-08-13 12:26:32 UTC

Version:           Any (using KDE Devel)
Installed from:    Compiled sources
Compiler:          gcc 2.95.4 
OS:          Linux

If I choose Farsi as the default language of KDE and then enter a URL in 
the "run command" dialog, I get a notification window about the page being 
contacted...
Farsi is displayed as question marks in the titlebar of this window, as per 
the screenshot in the attachment.
The question mark problem exists also in the case of the Control Center, 
however not for the modules names, but for the title "Control Center" only.

I know that this issue has existed for other languages before, but it seems that the solution has not been a global one. Hence the bug trport again.

Comment 1 Arash Zeini 2003-08-13 12:28:02 UTC

Created attachment 2227 [details]
titlebar with question marks

Comment 2 Arash Zeini 2003-08-13 13:55:44 UTC

This problem has been reported many times, e.g. as in bug 24834.  
Another bug included a comment that this problem can be solved by setting values for 
LC_CTYPE and LANG prior to starting KDE. I can confirm this. If I set "export 
LANG=fa_IR.UTF-8" this problem seems to be gone. But as the problem occurs in two 
window titlebars only, at least as far as I can see, I considered it a bug and hence worth 
reporting.

Comment 3 Lubos Lunak 2003-08-14 10:11:01 UTC

You should have proper locale env. variables set while running KDE, as it's used also for sorting 
etc. The thing you consider a bug has been fixed in Qt-3.2.

Comment 4 Arash Zeini 2003-08-14 13:38:56 UTC

OK. Thanks for the info.